Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases.

The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products.

Here are other domain name purchases by end users over the past week.

Sedo

Ad network Multi-View, Inc. made this week’s big $112,000 purchase of AHHA.com.

Travel Networks Europe Ltd, owner of rental car finder CarJet.com, paid 3,000 GPB for CarHirecover.com

Jasper Engines & Transmissions paid $2,000 for MyJapser.com.

The restaurant data company behind FoodServiceReport.com bought RestaurantData.com for $1,299.

Travel services company HOTELBEDS SPAIN, S.L.U. bought AttractionStore.com for $1,895 and ResortActivities.com for $1,295.

University of Toronto mathematician James Colliander bought CrowdMark.com for $995. It will be interesting to see what he does with it.

Afternic

Westport, Connecticut cycling/spin studio JoyRide Cycling Studio picked up JoyrideStudio.com for $1,495. It currently owns Joyride-Cycling.com and JoyrideWestport.com.

Embassy Loans bought the singular version of its domain name — EmbassyLoan.com — for $1,500.

Healthcare company Primary Care Partners in South Florida bought HealthyPartners.com for $3,788.

The Catamaran Company, seller of catamarans (a type of boat), paid $2,088 for LagoonCatamarans.com

Elite Estate Buyers Inc, which already owns EliteAuction.com, bought EliteConsignment.com for $2,088.

Business intelligence company Third Time dropped the hyphen in its domain name for $1,200 by picking up ThirdTime.com. Nice purchase.

Book publisher Health Communications, Inc, whose slogan is “The Life Issues Publisher”, bought LifeIssues.com for $8,800. Nice sale.

Godat Landscape Construction Company paid $1,388 for Godat.net.

ShortTermStays.com, an L.A. short term rental referral service, bought ShortTermStay.com for $2,100.

It appears that Lufthansa Technik has purchased LTCS.com for $2,500. The whois record for the domain doesn’t mention the company, but the registrant’s email address is LTCS.aero, which is owned by Lufthansa. The actual registrant is Gordon Weller, Sr. Director Customer Service & Account Management for the company.

Max New York Life bought MaxLifeInsurance.com for a whopping $21,000.

Affordable Power, L.P., which goes by the name APG&E, picked up APGE.com for $5,088.

The owner of Waverlyhomes.ca bought Waverlyhomes.com for $2,000.

Calgary Co-operative Association Ltd. bought YourCoop.com for $2,655.

A brand new company called Canada Carbon has purchased none other than CanadaCarbon.com for $1,995.

Instant Home Loans, Inc. d.b.a. Instant Capital, bought InstantCapital.com for a strong $14,500. Its web site is MyInstantCapital.com.

American Trash Management, a unique company whose mission is to “reduce the environmental impact, costs and problems of trash”, bought SmartTrash.com for $2,188.

Production company Flatland Pictures bought MusicProfessor.com for $1,888. Perhaps the title of an upcoming film?

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Oversee.net hires GM from online travel industry to run its travel network.

Oversee.net has hired Raj Beri as General Manager of its travel vertical, the company announced today. Beri was previously Director and COO of IgoUgo, a travel site owned by Travelocity.

The travel vertical is part of Oversee.net’s “vertical markets” business that includes fully developed web sites. Oversee.net is best known to domainers for its DomainSponsor domain parking service.

Oversee.net’s travel properties include LowFares.com, FareSpotter.net, AboutAirportParking.com and AirportParking.com. These are big sites; LowFares.com has a US Quantcast rank of 1,492 and FareSpotter.net is ranked 2,973.

So just how big is Oversee.net’s travel vertical? According to Beri’s LinkedIn profile, it’s a $40MM+ business.

Other vertical markets at Oversee.net include consumer finance (CreditCards.org, IdentityTheft.com) and shopping (ShopWiki.com).

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Zimbabwe.com sells for a fraction of what it sold for in 2007.

We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens.

Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $42,500 at Sedo.

The last time this domain (reported) sold was in 2007. Purchase price: $130,000.

It’s possible the domain also changed hands in 2008. Regardless of if it has changed hands since 2007, the domain took a total haircut of $87,500 during that period.

Not pretty.

There’s not a whole lot you can do with Zimbabwe.com from a commerce perspective other than offer elephant hunting trips.

Ideally a buyer would use the domain to help shed more light on Robert Mugabe’s atrocities.

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